Henry Baltazar is research director of the 451 Research Storage channel within S&P Global Market Intelligence, with a focus on data storage. In his current role, Henry analyzes the market trends around environmental, social and governance (ESG) storage challenges, infrastructure modernization and resiliency. He publishes reports on trends in data storage, disaster recovery and hybrid cloud. He is often cited as a subject expert by publications such as MIT Technology Review, Forbes and TechTarget. Henry arrived at S&P Global Market Intelligence through its 2019 acquisition of 451 Research, where he began working as an analyst in August 2006. After spending three years running the storage research practice at Forrester, he returned to 451 Research in 2015 to fill the research director role and lead the storage practice. Henry graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor’s degree in environmental sciences.
Arctera is introducing itself to the market with a substantial customer base. With a starting technology core loaded with the data protection, resilience and compliance assets that did not go over to Cohesity in its recent merger with Veritas, the Arctera spinoff is launching as a profitable company with a worldwide presence.
The management and storage of unstructured data is a key challenge for organizations. With the launch of its all-flash object storage platform, the vendor is looking to redefine how its customers view storage and infrastructure to highlight that storage is the place where data comes alive.
At re:Invent, the vendor unveiled a wave of major updates across its broad cloud storage services portfolio to cater to the demanding performance needs of modern generative AI workloads, as well as the core requirements of traditional on-premises workloads that are moving to the AWS cloud.
While environment, social and governance issues have become less impactful over the last two years as it relates to storage procurement decisions, most organizations are still concerned with the power and rack space consumption and CO₂ emissions of their storage assets, as well as other requirements for ethical hardware retirement and longer life spans for storage systems.
Cloud platform evolution, IT modernization and AI adoption will be overarching market drivers in 2025, fueling other trends in cloud infrastructure and services and cloud-native technologies in the coming year. The cloud sector continues to transform as hyperscalers, managed service providers, global systems integrators, hardware vendors and independent software vendors advance overlapping visions for IT infrastructure and application modernization enabled by automation and powered by the (disruptive) promise of generative AI.
The data protection specialist continues to expand into security and other markets to boost its value proposition. In addition to announcing a secondary offering, Veeam recently shared its goal of reaching $5 billion in sales and discussed how its new strategy will drive its business going forward.
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